Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (Rhode Island)
Pentecostal Collegiate Institute at the Rhode Island campus, c. 1905
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| Type | Private |
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| Active | 1902–1918 |
| Affiliation | Association of Pentecostal Churches of America Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene |
| President | Fred J. Shields (1919) |
| Principal | William F. Albrecht (1902-1904) D.C. Thatcher (1904) W.H. Daniels (1905) Walter C. Kinsey (1905-1906) E.E. Angell (1906-1913) Martha Curry (1913-1914) J.C. Bearse (1914-1916) A.R. Archibald (1916-1917) J.E.L. Moore (1917-1919) |
| Location | North Scituate, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, United States |
| Campus | Rural |
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Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (Rhode Island)
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Pentecostal Collegiate Institute main building in 2008
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| Location | Scituate, Rhode Island |
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| Coordinates | 41°50′2″N 71°35′0″W / 41.83389°N 71.58333°WCoordinates: 41°50′2″N 71°35′0″W / 41.83389°N 71.58333°W |
| Built | 1839 |
| Architect | Russell Warren (architect) |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 78003446 |
| Added to NRHP | March 29, 1978 |
The Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (Rhode Island) was a co-educational interdenominational collegiate institute located at North Scituate, Rhode Island from September 1902 to 1918. PCI was incorporated in Rhode Island and operated by its own board in association with the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America (until October 1907), and under the auspices of the Church of the Nazarene after 1915. It is considered a predecessor to Eastern Nazarene College.
The campus of the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute was located at 29 Institute Lane, North Scituate, Rhode Island, "on a crest between Route 6 and Route 116 and visible from the Village Green".
The Pentecostal Collegiate Institute had previously operated as the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute and Bible Seminary in Saratoga Springs, New York from 25 September 1900. Disagreements with its founding president and second principal, Rev. Lyman C. Pettit, resulted in the Educational Committee of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America (APCA) deciding in May 1902 to dismiss Pettit, and sell its assets in aratoga Springs. The committee relocated the school to North Scituate, Rhode Island, a village roughly 10 miles (16 km) west of Providence. A North Scituate Pentecostal congregation had been located there since its organization during the winter of 1896-1897. Finding out that Pettit had held the Saratoga property in his own name, the APCA had to raise additional funds to purchase a new campus.
The school's financial struggles appeared to add to its difficulties, and it was characterized by numerous interim principals and short-term leadership for years, making it difficult to accomplish fundraising or to settle on educational goals for the school.
Acting on their own initiative, in June 1902 Rev. William F. Albrecht, the founding principal of the Saratoga school and inaugural principal of the relocated institution, and Rev. Fred A. Hillery, the pastor of the People's Pentecostal Church in South Providence, placed an option on the disused facilities of the former Lapham Institute, which had been vacant since 1876.
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